·Project Name: The Role of Genetic, Family Environmental, and Individual-Specific Environmental Risk Factors in the Etiology of Tobacco Initiation and the Progression to Nicotine Dependence and Molecular Genetic Identification of Individual Genes that Influence Vulnerability to Tobacco Initiation and the Progression to Nicotine Dependence. PI(s): Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University

·Project Name: The Development and Implementation Assessment of a Tobacco Use Prevention Model for Youth with Psychiatric Disorders. PI(s): Peggy S. Meszaros, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

·Project Name: Exercise as a Prevention and Intervention Strategy for Nicotine Use in Adolescents. PI(s): Darlene J. Brunzell, PhD and Wendy J. Lynch, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Virginia

·Project Name: Tobacco Use Prevention and Health Promotion in Rural Virginia Schools:Translating Research into an Evidence-Based Model Curriculum. PI(s): Early Dowdy, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

·Project Name:Partnering with Rural Youth and Parents to Design and Test a Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention Program Model. PI(s): Pamela Kulbok, PhD and Peggy Meszaros, PhD, University of Virginia

·Project Name: Social Factors Related to Smoking Among Middle and High School Students with ADHD. PI(s): Zewelanji Serpell, PhD, James Madison University

Small Grants 2007-2008

·Project Name: Modifying Social Norms as a Policy Tool for Preventing Youth Smoking Initiative: A Proposal for Monitoring Changes in Nonsmoking Policies in Multiunit Dwellings in Virginia. PI(s): Richard Bonnie, JD and Shelly Jackson, University of Virginia

·Project Name: A Targeted Molecular and Genetic Analysis of the Effects of Nicotine Exposure on Previously Unexposed Adolescents. PI(s): Karl J. Fryxell, PhD, George Mason University

·Project Name: Preventing Youth Tobacco Use by Treating the Risk-Factor of ADHD: A Follow-up Study of Adolescents with ADHD. PI(s): Zewelanji Serpell, PhD and Steven W. Evans, PhD, Virginia State University & James Madison University

This research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U54DA036105 and the Center for Tobacco Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the views of the NIH or the FDA.